Tony Wagner
This user hasn't shared any biographical information
Posts by Tony Wagner
Best review of Creating Innovators yet on Huff Post
Apr 24th
Homa Tavangar, whose book, Growing Up Global I greatly admire, has just done a wonderful review of Creating Innovators. She pays particular attention to the parent issues. You can read it here.
Great website for parenting a young innovator
Apr 21st
Monika Conway recently introduced me to her website via email: “My goal is to create tools for parents, (coming from myself a former IDEO designer, now based in New Zealand), to help guide the parenting of a future innovator. I’m currently focusing on the preschool and ‘after-hours’ elementary school, my oldest More >
My Reply to Comments on My Wall Street Journal Essay…
Apr 15th
I recently published an essay in the Wall Street Journal, which you will find in the Articles section of this website, as well. Without my knowledge or permission, the editors of the Journal gave it the title, “Educating The Next Steve Jobs.” Unfortunately, many of the resulting comments centered around Jobs’ More >
Educating The Next Steve Jobs
Apr 14th
Originally published in the April 14, 2012 Wall Street Journal, Page C2
How can schools teach students to be more innovative? Offer hands-onclasses and don‘t penalize failure
By TO N Y W A G N E R
Most of our high schools and colleges are not preparing students to become innovators. To succeed in the 21st-century economy, students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated More >
Tony’s essay, based on Creating Innovators, just published in the Wall Street Journal
Apr 14th
April 14, 2012
Educating the Next Steve JobsHow can schools teach students to be more innovative? Offer hands- on classes and don‘t penalize failure
By TO N Y W A G N E R
Most of our high schools and colleges are not preparing students to become innovators. To succeed in the 21st-century economy, students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated risks More >
Calling All Innovators
Apr 5th
Originally published in Educational Leadership, April 2012 | Volume 69 | Number 7, Pages 66-69
© Copyright Tony Wagner 2012
Our students want to change the world. But to give them the
skills they need to do so, schools must focus on five essential practices.
In their recent book That Used to Be Us,1 Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum argue that to succeed in the new global knowledge economy, all young people must learn to be innovators. U.S. workers who cannot bring innovation to More >
Glowing reviews of Creating Innovators from USA Today and more…
Mar 16th
USA Today recommends the book as “a road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers” (March 19, 2012). Kirkus Reviews calls it “a seminal analysis promising hope for the future” (March 13, 2012.) ReadWriteWeb, one of the most popular blogs for people involved in internet businesses, says that More >
